as in pile
a quantity of wood heaped together for burning a dead body
a funeral pyre
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Recent Examples of pyre
Her idea was expressed through a reenactment of the funeral of Achilles from the perspective of the flowers growing near his funeral pyre.
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Literary Hub, 12 Sep. 2025
Now it has been relegated to the realm of wistful articles, added to the glowing funeral pyre of cultural entities—breakfast cereals, bar soap, chain restaurants, and so forth—that Millennials have been accused of abandoning.
—Jordan Michelman, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2025
The pyre’s final stunt sees the avian structure break free and soar through the night sky.
—Daron James, IndieWire, 7 Aug. 2025
The flaming-pyre raven flies off.
—Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2025
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Literary Hub, 12 Sep. 2025
Now it has been relegated to the realm of wistful articles, added to the glowing funeral pyre of cultural entities—breakfast cereals, bar soap, chain restaurants, and so forth—that Millennials have been accused of abandoning.
—Jordan Michelman, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2025
The pyre’s final stunt sees the avian structure break free and soar through the night sky.
—Daron James, IndieWire, 7 Aug. 2025
The flaming-pyre raven flies off.
—Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for pyre
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pyre
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Standing at the head of a moving shuttle bus like a safari guide, the circuit’s chairman points to piles of dirt.—
Hannah Dailey,
Billboard,
10 Feb. 2026
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On Amazon, the glorious inconvenience of browsing shelves or combing through piles has been eliminated.—
Becca Rothfeld,
New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2026
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As one of the men operated the mechanical digger, the other stood by with the wheelbarrow, into which his co-worker dumped an occasional load of earth mixed with stones, to go on a refuse heap in a corner of the cemetery.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
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Darnold’s already shown maximum resolve by scrambling his way off the ash heap of underachievement history, where the likes of Zach Wilson, Josh Rosen and Johnny Manziel all reside.—
Andrew Greif,
NBC news,
8 Feb. 2026
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The launch positions Geek+ as the only company offering a complete warehouse automation stack, spanning autonomous mobile robots, specialized robotic arms, and now humanoid systems.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Feb. 2026
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And it was provided only old paper maps and stacks of interment cards that listed names, dates and funeral homes.—
Robbyn Abbitt,
The Conversation,
10 Feb. 2026
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Beyond them, the concrete of the 21st century falls away, replaced by creamy pillars and marble paving stretching into the distance, with green hills beyond.—
Maureen O'Hare,
CNN Money,
9 Feb. 2026
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At the bottom of the hill, where there will eventually be a parking lot for visitors, Goldsworthy showed us a derelict building made from pinkish sandstone.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
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He was jailed in Nevada City, the seat of Nevada County about an hour’s drive from Truckee on the other side of a 7,000-foot mountain pass.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Feb. 2026
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The event was put on hold for several minutes as medical professionals tended to Vonn and waited for a helicopter to carry her off the mountain.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
8 Feb. 2026
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“Pyre.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pyre. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.
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